If you want to be a deaf person, that's fine by me, but it doesn't give you any moral imperative to suggest that parents should deny their children their right to hearing.
Wouldn't the more appropriate course of action be to allow individuals to choose if they want to hear or be deaf once they've attained their majority? I'm sure tens of people per year would voluntarily join the deaf community.
If their union is so powerful, how come they're subject to routine monitoring in this way at work?
The union undoubtedly negotiated the terms for monitoring. For example, their bosses may not be allowed to use the records for disciplinary purposes if the microphone caught a cop saying "fuck the police commissioner and his lackeys" Or the bosses can't review the records unless it's required for a case. Those are just a couple of examples with wide reaching implications.
That said, good luck finding the specifics of the union agreement. You might have to file an open records request or sue.
Putin want's to go back to the cold war... fine. We offered his country a clean slate... Obama even went so far as to offer that reset button thing. And what do we get? This... Well, whatever.
The problem is that you're viewing this from an American perspective. The EU has been slowly encroaching on Russia's buffer states for years. It finally boiled over when Russia's attempt to retain the Ukrainian Government's alignment ended with a Ukrainian revolution.
The actual participants in this dance are the EU and Russia. The USA is a side actor. It's not about US.
Russia is only as powerful as their economy, and the best way to counter them is to hobble them economically. It also is politically destabilizing internally.
The difficulty is that Russia's economy is based on natural gas, which Europe doesn't have any alternatives for. Welcome to the global economy.
You can also see that the GPUs are cooled serially and not in parallel. Tomshardware doesn't break out the GPU temps individually, so we don't know if the second GPU is running hotter.
Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, unlike other challengers, seeks damages from Verizon and U.S. officials â" which may keep his two cases alive, experts say. Cases brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., do not seek damages.
The request for past damages means that his lawsuit can't be mooted by legislative changes. All the other lawsuits are only asking for injuctions, and Congress can make them go away.
Not all science is done in one groundbreaking leap. This is their second study, which confirms the results of their first study. "Results confirm our previous study, more research required" is not a surprise conclusion for any scientist.
Sometimes you have to do these small scale experiments in order to gather funding/attention for the bigger study.
Beyond anything else its a threat to our very freedoms.
I don't want the government in control of water, power, food, or the internet.
All of that is just leverage. Something they can put over you to make you comply.
Ever hear of the Tennessee Valley Authority? It was a Depression era project by the New Deal coalition. And it worked. It brought power, flood control, and investment funds to a desperately poor area of the country. To this day, their power is cheaper and their communities are richer because of it.
As a matter of fact, it's been so wildly successful for the last 80 years... that, of course, they want to privatize it.
The pdf seems to completely ignore that in the past, security researchers have written patches for Microsoft operating systems as a stopgap until MS could get its shit together and issue their own security updates.
I also take issue with the comparison to cars. If you want to drive a car on the road, it requires a safety inspection, no matter how old it is. WinXP, even patched, is the equivalent of driving around a rust bucket with bad wiring and bald tires. It's an accident waiting to happen.
About the only thing I really agreed with was this:
For these reasons, Microsoft Windows XPâ(TM)s end of support, combined with a collective action problem stemming from individual usersâ(TM) failure to realize or internalize the costs of not migrating or upgrading their operating systems, could prove catastrophic.
The problem is definitely a failure to internalize the costs of running out of date software. That's why the police fine people for having broken tail lights or other obvious safety issues. There's no internet equivalent, but I don't see why this is Microsoft's problem.
Sometimes you can't convince end users there's a problem that needs fixing unless it causes them pain. MS needs to pull the plug and the chaos that follows will sort itself out fairly quickly.
It shouldn't matter if you knock out the control channel. Remote control [anything] should always be set up to fail in a "safe" manner, for various definitions of safe.
Here's a picture of the aftermath, with someone picking up the hexacopter and its pieces. The triathlete is on the ground with blood, if you're squeamish about that kind of thing.
to be fair we dont know, he has never made a statement about it as far as I am aware.
He had ~10 days to repudiate his former position and didn't. In that time, he's made statements, but all his statements were non-apologies and evasions.
"So I don't want to talk about my personal beliefs because I kept them out of Mozilla all these 15 years we've been going," he told the Guardian. "I don't believe they're relevant."
Eich refused to be drawn on whether he would donate to a Proposition 8 style campaign again in the future. "I don't want to do hypotheticals," he said. "I haven't thought about that issue and I really don't want to speculate because it's not relevant."
"Tolerate my intolerance" was never really a good place to be starting from, but nowadays it's a completely unviable position to take.
There are still culture warriors out there bemoaning this trend as the end of free speech, but all that really means is they don't understand how free speech works.
Perhaps you should read the actual first amendment, rather than the text written in invisible ink that authoritarian judges added to it.
Our legal tradition didn't start with the Constitution and you understanding of it can't start there either.
This is really important: The Constitution was not written in a vacuum. I'll say it again: The Constitution was not written in a vacuum.
Long before the Constitution and its Amendments were conceived, there was this thing called "common law." Slander, libel, and threatening immediate bodily harm were already illegal. The 1st Amendment was never intended to legalize such behavior.
We know this, because the guys who authored and debated the Amendments had voluminous written correspondences on the matter.
Your approach to the Constitution is like a layman reading the Bible, without any historical context and proclaiming "I understand the word of God." You don't. Your interpretation is unequivocally wrong. Please don't misinform others.
Suppose we wanted to reduce population growth by 0.1%/year by shipping people out; that's 7 million people per year, something like twenty thousand a day, or one every four or five seconds.
With modern materials, we could build lighter and possibly fit more people using the same weight constraint. /There is the small issue of nuclear fallout being scattered throughout the atmosphere.
Ralph says his team is already working to insert zip-lignins into corn plants.
I know we grow a lot of corn, but why not insert the gene into kudzu or some other fast growing weed that thrives on marginal land with low fertilizer inputs? It's not like we don't already have a use for every part of the corn plant.
Speaking about the attraction of simple names, Alter told Red Bull âoeIâ(TM)d imagine that simpler names are more memorable, more recognisable, and easier to repeat mentally when people are thinking of the other players who occupy the same gamescape. Itâ(TM)s hard to think of a time when a simpler name would hurt a gamer or a team, but easy to imagine that gamers with very complex gamertags might get lost in the mass of names.â
In-game and in real life, anyone with a *long name can easily find it shortened by the people around them. It's not so easy for me to imagine that "very complex gamertags might get lost in the mass of names."
Even someone as not-complex as "Nightmare" would easily get shortened to "Night" or even "N" during team activities.
I'm sure with 438 men and women in Congress, stupid things get said everyday.
And most of them are 60 or 70 years old and don't understand things like the internet, cell phones and haven't been in college or highschool in 50 some years to know what science is.
These particular idiots are members of Senate/House Committees responsible for Science. Of all the people in the Congress, they should have some basic understanding of how science works.
Because depression presents in all kinds of weird ways. In this case "started to get dizzy and feel sick" could have been anything. Once blood work ruled out physical problems, that's when you start looking for psychological ones.
Most laptops don't come with the ability to put in two drives so you can't have an SSD and platter. You'd have to have an external USB drive which most users would not want to lug around.
Many laptop motherboards come with an internal mSATA port. This can be used for SSDs as either a standalone drive or a cache drive for your spinning disk.
As a combination, SSD cache + spinning disk is almost as fast in all the ways that matters.
Clearly donations are out as the pro-Prop 8 donor list was leaked/stolen which is part of the reason for this bigotry of differing opinions.
Bigotry of differing opinions? Actively trying to make equality illegal is not a "differing opinion."
I don't know about you, I don't know which groups I might be heading in 6 years, or 60 for that matter... best to just stop voting, donating money or having opinions that someone somewhere might find offensive... unless that too is considered offensive.
History has already decided on freedom for the slaves, the universal right to vote (hello ladies), the right to interracial mixing, the right to not be racially discriminated against, etc etc etc.
If you have to ask if your positions are offensive and odious to society, they probably are.
but supporting freedom of speech is bigger than any one issue.
There are things that are more important than free speech.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I'd say that equality under the law qualifies as "a more perfect Union," "establish Justice," and "promote the general Welfare." All which override freedom of speech in numerous legally recognized ways;
Communication advances always causes flowers to bloom --- any heartache always looks dumb and old fashioned in a decade of hindsight, because it yields new freedoms and rights that were never expected. If you doubt this, why do civil right continue to grow and governments to ever more tend to the welfare of their people?
Huh? The biggest advance that I've seen in communication is revelations that the NSA and its sister agencies around the globe have been spying on all the new freedoms that were never expected. How's that for civil rights continuing to grow?
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Where is the controversy?
The controversy is that the Bible disagrees with reality.
So it's not really a controversy except to Biblical literalists.
If you want to be a deaf person, that's fine by me, but it doesn't give you any moral imperative to suggest that parents should deny their children their right to hearing.
Wouldn't the more appropriate course of action be to allow individuals to choose if they want to hear or be deaf once they've attained their majority?
I'm sure tens of people per year would voluntarily join the deaf community.
If their union is so powerful, how come they're subject to routine monitoring in this way at work?
The union undoubtedly negotiated the terms for monitoring.
For example, their bosses may not be allowed to use the records for disciplinary purposes if the microphone caught a cop saying "fuck the police commissioner and his lackeys"
Or the bosses can't review the records unless it's required for a case.
Those are just a couple of examples with wide reaching implications.
That said, good luck finding the specifics of the union agreement.
You might have to file an open records request or sue.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/25/politics/supreme-court-preview-obama/
June 26, 2013
President Barack Obama once believed marriage only was for one man and one woman.
He then backed civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, granting them many of the same rights and privileges as married heterosexuals.
Now he is firmly in support of a constitutional right that has put him at odds with many social conservatives.
People are outraged, just not the people you were thinking.
Putin want's to go back to the cold war... fine. We offered his country a clean slate... Obama even went so far as to offer that reset button thing. And what do we get? This... Well, whatever.
The problem is that you're viewing this from an American perspective.
The EU has been slowly encroaching on Russia's buffer states for years.
It finally boiled over when Russia's attempt to retain the Ukrainian Government's alignment ended with a Ukrainian revolution.
The actual participants in this dance are the EU and Russia.
The USA is a side actor. It's not about US.
Also... why... all the... ellipses?
Russia is only as powerful as their economy, and the best way to counter them is to hobble them economically. It also is politically destabilizing internally.
The difficulty is that Russia's economy is based on natural gas, which Europe doesn't have any alternatives for.
Welcome to the global economy.
These look like standard hose barbs to me:
http://media.bestofmicro.com/4/H/430433/original/radeon-r9-295x2-blown-up.png
http://media.bestofmicro.com/4/J/430435/original/radeon-r9-295x2-pieces.jpg
You can also see that the GPUs are cooled serially and not in parallel.
Tomshardware doesn't break out the GPU temps individually,
so we don't know if the second GPU is running hotter.
Here's another article I read today
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/03/27/obamas-nsa-reform-package-may-hamstring-privacy-lawsuits
Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, unlike other challengers, seeks damages from Verizon and U.S. officials â" which may keep his two cases alive, experts say. Cases brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., do not seek damages.
The request for past damages means that his lawsuit can't be mooted by legislative changes.
All the other lawsuits are only asking for injuctions, and Congress can make them go away.
Not all science is done in one groundbreaking leap.
This is their second study, which confirms the results of their first study.
"Results confirm our previous study, more research required" is not a surprise conclusion for any scientist.
Sometimes you have to do these small scale experiments in order to gather funding/attention for the bigger study.
The government shouldn't run any utility.
Beyond anything else its a threat to our very freedoms.
I don't want the government in control of water, power, food, or the internet.
All of that is just leverage. Something they can put over you to make you comply.
Ever hear of the Tennessee Valley Authority?
It was a Depression era project by the New Deal coalition. And it worked.
It brought power, flood control, and investment funds to a desperately poor area of the country.
To this day, their power is cheaper and their communities are richer because of it.
As a matter of fact, it's been so wildly successful for the last 80 years... that, of course, they want to privatize it.
The pdf seems to completely ignore that in the past, security researchers have written patches for Microsoft operating systems as a stopgap until MS could get its shit together and issue their own security updates.
I also take issue with the comparison to cars.
If you want to drive a car on the road, it requires a safety inspection, no matter how old it is.
WinXP, even patched, is the equivalent of driving around a rust bucket with bad wiring and bald tires.
It's an accident waiting to happen.
About the only thing I really agreed with was this:
For these reasons, Microsoft Windows XPâ(TM)s end of support, combined with a collective action problem stemming from individual usersâ(TM) failure to realize or internalize the costs of not migrating or upgrading their operating systems, could prove catastrophic.
The problem is definitely a failure to internalize the costs of running out of date software.
That's why the police fine people for having broken tail lights or other obvious safety issues.
There's no internet equivalent, but I don't see why this is Microsoft's problem.
Sometimes you can't convince end users there's a problem that needs fixing unless it causes them pain.
MS needs to pull the plug and the chaos that follows will sort itself out fairly quickly.
For corporations, copyright lasts 110 years.
That strikes me as unreasonable.
Yes, both the length of the copyright and requiring someone to provide support for that long.
It shouldn't matter if you knock out the control channel.
Remote control [anything] should always be set up to fail in a "safe" manner, for various definitions of safe.
Here's a picture of the aftermath, with someone picking up the hexacopter and its pieces.
The triathlete is on the ground with blood, if you're squeamish about that kind of thing.
By mass, I'm currently ~70% water, ~29.5% matter, and 0.5% cookie dough
Disclaimer: Do not eat raw cookie dough made with unpasteurized eggs.
to be fair we dont know, he has never made a statement about it as far as I am aware.
He had ~10 days to repudiate his former position and didn't.
In that time, he's made statements, but all his statements were non-apologies and evasions.
https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
I can only ask for your support to have the time to "show, not tell"; and in the meantime express my sorrow at having caused pain.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/01/mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich-refuses-to-quit
"So I don't want to talk about my personal beliefs because I kept them out of Mozilla all these 15 years we've been going," he told the Guardian. "I don't believe they're relevant."
Eich refused to be drawn on whether he would donate to a Proposition 8 style campaign again in the future. "I don't want to do hypotheticals," he said. "I haven't thought about that issue and I really don't want to speculate because it's not relevant."
"Tolerate my intolerance" was never really a good place to be starting from, but nowadays it's a completely unviable position to take.
There are still culture warriors out there bemoaning this trend as the end of free speech, but all that really means is they don't understand how free speech works.
Perhaps you should read the actual first amendment, rather than the text written in invisible ink that authoritarian judges added to it.
Our legal tradition didn't start with the Constitution and you understanding of it can't start there either.
This is really important: The Constitution was not written in a vacuum.
I'll say it again: The Constitution was not written in a vacuum.
Long before the Constitution and its Amendments were conceived, there was this thing called "common law."
Slander, libel, and threatening immediate bodily harm were already illegal.
The 1st Amendment was never intended to legalize such behavior.
We know this, because the guys who authored and debated the Amendments had voluminous written correspondences on the matter.
Your approach to the Constitution is like a layman reading the Bible,
without any historical context and proclaiming "I understand the word of God."
You don't. Your interpretation is unequivocally wrong. Please don't misinform others.
Suppose we wanted to reduce population growth by 0.1%/year by shipping people out; that's 7 million people per year, something like twenty thousand a day, or one every four or five seconds.
20,000 per day? That happens to be the rough estimate of the "Super Orion" carrying capacity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
With modern materials, we could build lighter and possibly fit more people using the same weight constraint.
/There is the small issue of nuclear fallout being scattered throughout the atmosphere.
Ralph says his team is already working to insert zip-lignins into corn plants.
I know we grow a lot of corn, but why not insert the gene into kudzu or some other fast growing weed that thrives on marginal land with low fertilizer inputs?
It's not like we don't already have a use for every part of the corn plant.
Speaking about the attraction of simple names, Alter told Red Bull âoeIâ(TM)d imagine that simpler names are more memorable, more recognisable, and easier to repeat mentally when people are thinking of the other players who occupy the same gamescape. Itâ(TM)s hard to think of a time when a simpler name would hurt a gamer or a team, but easy to imagine that gamers with very complex gamertags might get lost in the mass of names.â
In-game and in real life, anyone with a *long name can easily find it shortened by the people around them.
It's not so easy for me to imagine that "very complex gamertags might get lost in the mass of names."
Even someone as not-complex as "Nightmare" would easily get shortened to "Night" or even "N" during team activities.
*more than a syllable
I'm sure with 438 men and women in Congress, stupid things get said everyday.
And most of them are 60 or 70 years old and don't understand things like the internet, cell phones and haven't been in college or highschool in 50 some years to know what science is.
These particular idiots are members of Senate/House Committees responsible for Science.
Of all the people in the Congress, they should have some basic understanding of how science works.
Because depression presents in all kinds of weird ways.
In this case "started to get dizzy and feel sick" could have been anything.
Once blood work ruled out physical problems, that's when you start looking for psychological ones.
Most laptops don't come with the ability to put in two drives so you can't have an SSD and platter. You'd have to have an external USB drive which most users would not want to lug around.
Many laptop motherboards come with an internal mSATA port.
This can be used for SSDs as either a standalone drive or a cache drive for your spinning disk.
As a combination, SSD cache + spinning disk is almost as fast in all the ways that matters.
Clearly donations are out as the pro-Prop 8 donor list was leaked/stolen which is part of the reason for this bigotry of differing opinions.
Bigotry of differing opinions?
Actively trying to make equality illegal is not a "differing opinion."
I don't know about you, I don't know which groups I might be heading in 6 years, or 60 for that matter... best to just stop voting, donating money or having opinions that someone somewhere might find offensive... unless that too is considered offensive.
History has already decided on freedom for the slaves, the universal right to vote (hello ladies), the right to interracial mixing, the right to not be racially discriminated against, etc etc etc.
If you have to ask if your positions are offensive and odious to society, they probably are.
but supporting freedom of speech is bigger than any one issue.
There are things that are more important than free speech.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I'd say that equality under the law qualifies as "a more perfect Union," "establish Justice," and "promote the general Welfare."
All which override freedom of speech in numerous legally recognized ways;
Communication advances always causes flowers to bloom --- any heartache always looks dumb and old fashioned in a decade of hindsight, because it yields new freedoms and rights that were never expected. If you doubt this, why do civil right continue to grow and governments to ever more tend to the welfare of their people?
Huh?
The biggest advance that I've seen in communication is revelations that the NSA and its sister agencies around the globe have been spying on all the new freedoms that were never expected.
How's that for civil rights continuing to grow?